What are your 2009/ 2010 School Year Plans?

[Valerie]

Okay, so I want to know......

What Lapbooks do you have planned for this year?

Will you be cutting back on lapbooking, adding more lapbooking, or doing something completely different this year!

Lets see if anyone is going to be working on the same things?

[Valerie]

I'll start things off.........


We're going to be working on finishing up our Safety Lapbook, I found an awesome old school book that goes through some life safety skills. So as we go through that book we'll be adding in more and more to our lapbook.

We're also using Heritage Studies from BJU, so we'll be doing a bit of notebooking alongside that program as well.

[Erna]

We are going to be doing several "Canadian lapbooks" but on card stock so they can fit neatly into our binders for this year. :0) Details can be found at our lapbooking blog. We might also do the one I created about Jesus as a Child. I'm not sure if others will be on the horizon at this time because our schedule is quite full and there are about 15 lapbooks I created with Canadian themes (if one was to put them all into file folder-type lapbooks). :0)

[Tajuana]

We're doing more lapbooks this year. Since we started the workbox system I am breaking up the minibooks into different work or fun boxes each week.

[motherofonesm]

We are doing the Alpha bugs this year in a binder as we do our alphabet we are also doing a binder of a-z Bible people or events or concept ( O Obedinece W What would Jesus want me to do) as well as a theme topic that changes every three weeks. I have the day broke up into 10 minute segments not that it takes that long and we do something fun game ect in between each topic to break up the routine some.

[Monica]

Hi-
for what age are you doing the Alpha bugs? And how do you do it in a binder I am new to all of this and would like some tips on how to start and get organized. My sons are 3 and 2. My 3 yr old is starving to learn new things and i feel like i am not doing anything to feed him KNOWLEDGE because I just dont know how and where to begin......in other words HELP!!!!

[Amy]

We are using FIAR this year and doing lapbooks that go with each book. Also I'm teaching a lapbook class for a homeschool co-op, Bible lapbooking. So, I'll welcome any ideas for lapbooks...the subject will be Bible Heros, age group is 1st -3rd grade.

[Elizabeth Morgan]

We're going to do lapbooks for the "non-core" hours (music, dance, physical education, etc.) The girls are taking a ballet class, so that's going to be lapbook. We're also going to do some princess lessons (for etiquette), so that will be a lapbook/scrapbook (I haven't decided which format yet.) We're taking a P.E. class and a kids gymnastics class at our local YMCA, so those will be lapbooks. We're trying to use curriculum for the core stuff (Bible, reading, math, science, history/geography), so it doesn't leave much time for the "extra" stuff we want to do. :-) This is just the plan; I'm not sure if and how it will all get done.

[Rebecca]

We did a US Flag one on Sept 11.
I just started reading Little House in the Big Woods and we are going to do that one.
My older son is learning about plants in science right now, so I may let him do a plant one when we get done with the study.
I really haven't thought about any more yet.

[momtohjjnc]

We are doing quite a few lapbooks this year. We are in the middle of a space lapbook combined with Apologia Exploring Creation Astronomy. We just started the Workbox system so we are doing pieces with that. Other than that, I am planning a Beginning Reading, Down on the Farm, Operation English Grammar, Dental Health, History with famous Americans (we're currently working on Ben Franklin). We are doing an All about Ohio notebook, naming all the places we visit in Ohio (I've lots of field trips planned), I also have planned a multiplication Pizza lapbook.
Lapbooking seems to be the way the kids like to learn and I'm trying really hard to simplify our homeschooling life and I'm hoping the workbox system will work for us. I'm schooling 4 of my 5, with a toddler and a reluctant 6 yr old, school time gets a bit stressful.
I was introduced to lapbooking last year and I fell in love with all the beautiful lapbooks that everyone has on here and I love the concept . So I started printing and cutting and laminating but soon afterward, had a hard time finishing the projects. I felt like I was doing the work of three kids, well, I was. Now, I'm letting them do the cutting and pasting but doing it in bitesize pieces that aren't overwhelming. I'm excited and hopeful!

[Brenda B]

I am going completely against my original plan. I wasn't going to do many lapbooks this year, but changed my mind a few days ago. I am now going to plan a lot of them. Right now, we are working on two.

The reason I wasn't going to do any lapbooks was because my curriculum has been so scattered the last year or so, and I wanted to buckle down and try to fit in more Math and LA. But, I was extremely lucky (or more like blessed) to get a full curriculum for ALL of my grades. I was never very fond of Alpha Omega but, having the entire curriculum, and everyone getting to work in the same type of books, we have all grown to like it the last couple weeks. So I am very thankful to have got it! And, we're sticking with it. This will allow for more extras like lapbooks, since I won't have to spend forever planning each day :O)

The only problem I have come across, is that with six kids, for some reason... mine always want to be the ONLY ONE doing a lapbook on a certain topic. So, I'm thinking this year, maybe I will choose things that each child is interested in, and have just that child do a lapbook on that topic. More work for me of course, but better than having the kids not interested in what they are doing.

I have a pre-teen now that still enjoys lapbooks, so I am thinking that she will be able to do the lapbooks on her own with no help from me :O) She always helps me prepare for the younger ones too.

Ok, enough ramble from me... to answer the real question on this post... right now we are working on a so cute 'Grocery Store' lapbook from HS Share (my 6yo), and a Mt' Rushmore lapbook using some Teacher Book Bag resources. I have a zillion more in mind that I want to get started!

[motherofonesm]

Okay for the Alpha bugs I got the start of my ideas from the free lapbooks on this site. The letters not finished I just started searching on my own and found stuff. I am doing them for my 4 yr old son. Doing them in the notebook is also from a suggestion on here. Valerie is the video still available or can someone else help explain I can not think of the right words. For a 2 and 3 yr olds I would look at tot school on Carrisas site http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/TotBooks.html
Hope that this helps you some.

[Ami Brainerd]

We are doing more with Simon (one for each letter of the alphabet along with Read to Me & ABC) and less with Elijah because he will study things longer this year. I let him choose (for the most part) what he would study this year.

For Elijah-
~History of Flight/The Glorious Flight (FIAR) *done*
~Detectives & Mysteries
~Ancient Egypt *done*
~Ancient China/The Story About Ping/The Empty Pot *current*
~Robots
~Greek Myths
~Another Celebrated Dancing Bear (FIAR) & Russia
~Clown of God (FIAR) & Renaissance
~Night of the Moonjellies & Ocean Life
~Very Last First Time (FIAR) & Inuit culture
~Cranberry Thanksgiving (FIAR) & Pilgrims
~Rockets/Space Shuttles

We'll see if that gets us through the year. We will probably take some non-lapbook rabbit trails here & there, too! :)